Aristotle analyses politics as a whole. Relation between law and ruler, many rulers and one ruler, individual and state, state and house hold management, etc. Aristotle’s work seems to promote a community-centered approach to society in order to sustain the state, which aims at the good life for the its citizens—the good life is the aim of the state, and of minor institutions such as the household. From several types of community found in nature, the state is the most natural and best one. Aristotle utilizes nature to prove which form of government, and relation between subjection and mastership, is more natural. His work is more of a sum of arguments than of a systematic treatise on politics.
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They arise from the misunderstood permeated in the very foundations of ordinary states. Inequality is the result of bad and over-simplistic ideas about justice. These ideas have consequences, and many times lead to revolutions. Nor democracy nor Oligarchy are excluded from the possibility and reality of revolutions. Democracy, however, being by definition formed by the idea of making everyone equals, is considered by Aristotle to be more stable than Oligarchy, which is lead by extreme views of equality that result in the opposite: numerical and proportional inequality. This is how some Constitutions are formed, they are the “correction” of past errors. Constitutions carry the marks of past …show more content…
In order for a government to continue, it must restrain itself and his people from acting impulsively and/or selfishly. For a tyrant to remain in power he must act hypocritically. They must not act in front of the people in the same way they act in front of other tyrants. He must reserve power to himself while appearing honesty and transparent in public life. He should mirror the head of the household, and portray himself as a king. From all governments, tyranny is the one with the shortest life. After explaining this, Aristotle then attacks Plato, mainly in his understanding of
In his first book Aristotle analyses household …show more content…
They arise from the misunderstood permeated in the very foundations of ordinary states. Inequality is the result of bad and over-simplistic ideas about justice. These ideas have consequences, and many times lead to revolutions. Nor democracy nor Oligarchy are excluded from the possibility and reality of revolutions. Democracy, however, being by definition formed by the idea of making everyone equals, is considered by Aristotle to be more stable than Oligarchy, which is lead by extreme views of equality that result in the opposite: numerical and proportional inequality. This is how some Constitutions are formed, they are the “correction” of past errors. Constitutions carry the marks of past …show more content…
In order for a government to continue, it must restrain itself and his people from acting impulsively and/or selfishly. For a tyrant to remain in power he must act hypocritically. They must not act in front of the people in the same way they act in front of other tyrants. He must reserve power to himself while appearing honesty and transparent in public life. He should mirror the head of the household, and portray himself as a king. From all governments, tyranny is the one with the shortest life. After explaining this, Aristotle then attacks Plato, mainly in his understanding of